Sovereignty Leads First Week Of Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings

Sovereignty, Sierra Leone Top First 2025 Poll of Breeders' Cup

Each week a panel of media members, horseplayers, and Breeders’ Cup World Championships officials release a poll tabulating their votes on the nation's top contenders for the 2025 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic. The rankings are a weekly rating of the top 10 horses in contention and are determined by each voter ranking their top 10 horses with points assigned on a descending 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. Read More...

Breeders’ Cup News: Sovereignty, Sierra Leone Top Classic Rankings

The $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), the race that usually crowns the Horse of the Year, is shaping as one of the most contentious in its 42-year history. Sovereignty, the recent Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) winner after victories in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1), leads the first week of the Breeders’ Cup Classic top 10 rankings. Sierra Leone, who rallied from last-to-first in winning the Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga on Aug.…

Sovereignty Leads First Week Of Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings

Benefitting from dominant wins in the GI Kentucky Derby, GI Belmont Stakes and the GII Jim Dandy Stakes, Godolphin homebred Sovereignty (Into Mischief) leads the first week of tabulated votes for the 2025 Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings, which are a weekly rating of the top 10 horses in contention for the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Classic. Sovereignty, a 3-year-old, earned 383 votes. Defending Longines Breeders' Cup Classic winner, recen…